Tourism category: 1805 books
Digital Culture and E-Tourism
Technologies, Applications and Management Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
In the digital world of the knowledge society, developing the infrastructures required to provide citizens with access to cultural content and tourism services demands a multi-fold analysis of social, business, and technological factors. Digital Culture and E-Tourism: Technologies, Applications and Management...
Yellow Tourism
Crime and Corruption in the Holiday Sector
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
This book presents the latest research and novel case studies on crime and corruption in the tourism and hospitality industry. It approaches tourism as both a globalised business impacting the livelihood of millions of people, and a highly challenging field of action for national legislators and law...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This book strives to understand the social and cultural dynamics in Mediterranean tourism destinations through ethnographic examples and case studies from places including Greece, Spain, Morocco, Croatia, Lebanon, France, and Crete. Exploring themes such as globalization, cosmopolitanism, leisure...
by Dr. Jennifer Laing, Dr. Warwick Frost
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel – based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change – is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a foundation...
Asian Qualitative Research in Tourism
Ontologies, Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book explores the ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies, and methods that inform tourism qualitative research conducted either by Asian scholars or non-Asian scholars focusing on Asia. In addition to providing a platform for researchers to publish their qualitative journeys, it aims to encourage...
by Melanie Smith, Laszlo Puczko
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Health and Wellness Tourism takes an innovative look at this rapidly growing sector of today’s thriving tourism industry. This book examines the range of motivations that drive this diverse sector of tourists, the products that are being developed to meet their needs and the management implications...
Heritage Tourism in China
Modernity, Identity and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book offers new approaches and insights into the relationships between heritage tourism and notions of modernity, identity building and sustainable development in China. It demonstrates that the role of the state, politics, institutional arrangements and tradition have a considerable impact on...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
This volume presents the latest perspectives and practices on quality services and experiences in hospitality and tourism. It offers conceptual discourse, empirical evidence, application of existing and emerging theories, and considers the implications of practical findings to extend beyond the academic...
Being and Dwelling through Tourism
An anthropological perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Much of the existing literature seeks to make sense of tourism based on singular approaches such as visuality, identity, mobility, performance and globalised consumption. What is missing, however, is an overarching framework within which these valuable approaches can be located. This book offers one...
by Dr. Stephen L. Wearing, Dr. Stephen Schweinsberg, Dr. John Tower
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provides a framework to apply marketing principles to inform practices and guide the sustainable management of national parks and protected areas. The main themes...
The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Tourism, Travel and Hospitality
Skills for Successful Ventures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book is a practical handbook for entrepreneurship in tourism related industries. The book will provide students and prospective entrepreneurs with the knowledge, know-how and best practices in order to assist them in planning, implementing and managing business ventures in the field of tourism.
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Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism
7th ICSIMAT, Athenian Riviera, Greece, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2019
This book covers a very broad range of topics in marketing, communication, and tourism, focusing especially on new perspectives and technologies that promise to influence the future direction of marketing research and practice in a digital and innovational era. Among the areas covered are product...
Tourism and Poverty Reduction
Principles and impacts in developing countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Over the past decade, there have been an increasing number of publications that have analysed and critiqued the potential of tourism to be a mechanism for poverty reduction in less economically developed countries (LEDCs). This book showcases work by established and emerging researchers that provides...
by Sven Budweg, David Behne
Language: German
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Touristik / Tourismus, Hochschule Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Besuch des Gefängnisses Alcatraz während einer Städtereise in San Francisco, der Ausflug zum Dungeon Hamburg als Wochenendaktivität oder eine Schulexkursion zum Ground Zero...